Arend and Leeuw | |
Powertype: | Steam |
Builder: | R. B. Longridge and Company |
Serialnumber: | 119, 125 |
Builddate: | 1839 |
Totalproduction: | 2 |
Whytetype: | 2-2-2 |
Uicclass: | 1A1 |
Leadingdiameter: | 1140frac=8NaNfrac=8 |
Driverdiameter: | 1810frac=8NaNfrac=8 |
Trailingdiameter: | 1140frac=8NaNfrac=8 |
Tenderdiameter: | 1060frac=8NaNfrac=8 |
Length: | 9785frac=8NaNfrac=8 |
Height: | 4600frac=8NaNfrac=8 |
Locoweight: | 12t |
Fueltype: | Coke |
Fuelcap: | 600kg (1,300lb) |
Firearea: | 1.13m2 |
Boilerpressure: | 4.13kg/cm2 |
Cylindercount: | Two, inside |
Cylindersize: | 356x |
Maxspeed: | 300NaN0 |
Operator: | Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij |
Withdrawndate: | 1856–57 |
Disposition: | Both scrapped; replica built in 1939 |
De Arend (in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /də ˈʔaːrənt/; the eagle) was one of the two first steam locomotives in the Netherlands. It was a 2-2-2 Patentee type built in England by R. B. Longridge and Company of Bedlington, Northumberland to run on the then standard Dutch track gauge of . On 20 September 1839, together with the Snelheid (Dutch for speed), it hauled the first train of the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij between Amsterdam and Haarlem. It was withdrawn in 1857.
In 1939 a replica of the De Arend was constructed for the 100th anniversary of the Dutch railways. It is displayed at the Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum (Dutch Railway Museum) in Utrecht.